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Addressing a meeting of Kuruba community members from Hunsur on Sunday, Siddaramaiah said, “Why Vishwanath, who has been politically active since when D Devaraja Urs was CM, did not raise the demand then?”
He further added, “When I was CM, Vishwanath had written a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, accusing me of indulging in corruption. I had questioned Vishwanath over this, but he never gave me an answer.”
Referring to a statement made by Vishwanath that he had played a key role in making him CM, Siddaramaiah said, “I became the CM because of the people of my statte. Vishwanath was not even an MLA at the time. H P Manjunath, then-Hunsur MLA, had supported me.”